Eagles are definitely being fed!Deer have become a real danger here in Texas because of all the "country" people feeding them! I drive through West Texas often. Deer are not a road hazard in the open spaces! The closer you get to DFW the more dangerous they become.

You're very brave. Or, you've not witnessed or experienced one of those thingies deciding to do a quick hit-n-gedouda-town defensive move.

All of the puncture wounds only need, like, one stitch each to close 'em up, but, man, they're deep, they hurt, and there's typically ten to twenty of them on your front arm.

Of course, that was a Wisconsin eagle, so he was probably just too high to attack anything. Up at the lake, if somebody gets a cat, we all call it "Lunch" and then watch for the eagles to start taking rest breaks on the tall pine tree on the ridge above the road.

Crazy! We had a cat that looked exactly like that gray one. His name was Sticks, had a brother named Stones. He was five toed; could pick pencils up off the floor like a human. He would have been too smart to put himself out there as eagle bait. I think.

This video actually got me talking to the screen. It was like watching a horror movie. "Althouse don't go up to them birds! They're screechin don't you hear them? Back the f up now woman! Oh no she isn't backing up!"

Add a track of 'chchchch... ah ah ah ah...' and you have a horror movie scene.

John Cunningham said...I wonder where this was taped? the lush treeless green looks like Kodiak or the Aleutians.

================I think you called it right. Looks like Kodiak, and the town I might have been in, except the landmarks are outside the boundaries of the video taken. Didn't see eagles when I was there except from a moderate distance..there were a lot of those sightings. But going up to Talkeetna to do some fishing, we encountered a tree with 14 bald eagles hanging out in in during the salmon run, munching on the pink species.

The person who posted that also has another one taken with snow on the ground, and has a ending term "alaskan" in their Utube handle ID. Eagles apparantly come in along with ravens and crows to filch the cat food.

Naturally, if you play the video and the second one, Utube helpfully links to to video of eagles attacking and eating cats.Love the one where the guy zooms in to get a closer shot and exclaims "Hey, that isn't a squirrel. Its a cat! The eagles eating somebody's cat!"

All of the puncture wounds only need, like, one stitch each to close 'em up, but, man, they're deep, they hurt, and there's typically ten to twenty of them on your front arm.

"Infuse some blossom of the bitter orange. Add some sprinklings of sage while it is still warm. This is very good for eagle wounds. There are those who will add apricot and almond oil and even, the heavens defend us, sedra. But then there are always those what will overdo things. And sometimes we have need of them."

I found the video devlishly tense. The cats seemed nonplussed as they are wont to do, and the closeup of the raptor with the shrieking is exquisite.

Carnifex said

"Speaking of eating animals, is anyone else still eating X-mas leftovers, or is it just me?"

We had some tenderloin left over from Christmas dinner - last nite I sliced it into 1/4" thick slices and gently warmed in some light beef juice. Made for some good beef sandwiches to have with the leftover corn pudding and garlic mashed potatoes.